#I have some really specific archetype preferences when it comes to male chars ik.

[karouvas]

What are you top five favorite characters of all time?

not a question I can answer without some cheating and even then remember that I have a lot of media interests so something I haven’t revisited in a while could be lower on the radar in my mind’s eye. But off the top of my head without second guessing myself too much:

top 10 female tv chars: Buffy Summers (Buffyverse), Julia Wicker (The Magicians), Spencer Hastings (Pretty Little Liars), Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls), Katherine Pierce (The Vampire Diaries), Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex Girlfriend), Annie Edison (Community), Cordelia Chase (Buffyverse), Alice Quinn (The Magicians). honorable mentions: Margo Hanson (The Magicians), lots of other Buffyverse women but especially Faith Willow Tars and Dawn, multiple other TVDu women but especially Hope and Bonnie, Valencia Perez (CEG), multiple other pll women but especially Mona Vanderwaal, Root (Person of Interest), Sana and Noora (Skam Norway), May and Daisy (Agents of SHIELD), Effy Stonem (Skins UK), Devi Vishwakumar (Never Have I Ever).

top 10 female book characters: Julia Wicker again although it has been a really long time since I touched the tm books.. but remember I adored her in them, Blue Sargent (The Raven Cycle), Zoya Nazyalensky (Grishaverse), Sydney Sage (Bloodlines), Tessa Gray (The Shadowhunter Chronicles), Inej Ghafa (Grishaverse), Ling Chan (The Diviners), Karou (Daughter of Smoke and Bone), there are a lot of candidates for that 10th spot but my gut impulse is either Nina Zenik or Piper McLean.

honorable mentions: Theta Knight and Evie O’Neill (The Diviners), Emma Carstairs (The Shadowhunter Chronicles), Felicity Worthington (The Gemma Doyle trilogy), Emma Woodhouse + Anne Elliot (Jane Austen), Rose Hathaway (Vampire Academy), Zuzana Novakova and Liraz (Daughter of Smoke and Bone), Kate Harker (Monsters of Verity), Mackenzie Bishop (The Archived), multiple other Riordanverse girls but if I’m limiting Reyna and Annabeth, Genya Safin (Grishaverse).

top 5 male characters (this one is fairly reliable to take as definite since I have way less candidates): Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle), Andrew Minyard (All for the Game), Abed Nadir (Community), Nico Di Angelo (Riordanverse), Kaz Brekker (Grishaverse)

honorable mentions: Gansey (The Raven Cycle), Julian Blackthorn and Magnus Bane (The Shadowhunter Chronicles), Eliot Waugh (The Magicians), Percy Jackson (Riordanverse)